Sewing



(No Model.)

E..S. PAILLOT 8u L CHARBONNIER.` MEANS yEUR TEACHING SEWING.` No. 337,609.

PateMafr. 9, 1886.

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UNITED 'rares PATENT Fries.

ELVIBE SOPHlE PAILLOT AND LUCIE CHARBONNIER, OF COMPIGNE, i

' FRANCE. 1

MEANS FIOR TEACHING SEWING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,609, dated March 9,1886.

Application filed .I une 26.1885. Serial No. 169,854. (No model.) Patented in France November 15, 1884, No. 165,166.

To all whom, it may concerm Be it known that we, ELvIRE SOPHIE PAIL- LOT and LUCIE CHARBONNIER, citizens of the French Republic, residing at Compigne, in France, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Means for Teaching Sewing, (for which we have received Letters Patent in France, No. 165,366, dated November 15, 1884,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a means for teaching beginners the art of cutting and sewing. Vith this object in view, we have provided certain pieces of textile fabric having iinprinted thereupon certain auxiliary lines or patterns, the object of which shall be more fully described hereinafter, and the specific points ot' novelty in which shall be specifically pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 shows the design of pattern for whipped stitch. Fig. 2 shows the fabric cut on the line bb, the two pieces being placed together ready for sewing. Fig. 3 shows the pattern or design for a hemstitch. Fig. 4 shows the fabric cut on lineg g and folded, ready for sewing. Fig. 5 is the pattern or design for a button-hole.

These designs or patterns may be printed in indelible ink, or in such ink as can be washed out, and the designs or patterns consist ot' the longitudinal lines c c f f, against which are marked small perpendicular dashes at even distances from one'another, and these dashes show the learner the length ofthe stitches to be made. Suppose apieceof linen to be impressed with a design or pattern like Fig. 1. The learner in that case first severs the fabric on line b b, folds the two pieces on the lines a ci and c c, and places them together, as shown in Fig. 2-that is to say, in such a manner that the perpendicular dashes of the one piece coincide with the dashes of the other piece. rllhe learner then sews together the two pieces with needle and thread, taking care always to, pierce the fabric at the points marked by the dashes. The dashes being, as stated, at even distances from one another, the stitches will all have the same length and the learner thus acquires the habit of sewing evenly and regularly.

If a piece impressed like the pattern or design, Fig. 3, is placed in the hands cfa learner, which pattern is adapted for hemstitch, the material is first cut or severed along the line g g. The fabric is neXt folded on line ffand then on line d d, so that the fabric is folded over as seen in Fig. 4. Here, also, the dashes along line f f indicate the length for each stitch. l

Fig. 5 is the pattern for abutton hole. The learner makes a stitch at each dash and at each stitch passes the needle through theloop made by the thread, as will be readily understood. Itis obvious that thedistance between the dashes may be varied in accordance with the skill of the learner and the required length of stitch. It will also be readily understood that particularly for the use of schools, books consisting of a number of sheets with such designs as described, or with similar ones, may be provided and form graduated sewingeXer- XVe claim- As a means of instructing beginners in the art of cutting and sewing, the herein described article of manufacture, which consists of sheets of textile material having delineated thereupon characters or impressions which represent stitches of various kinds or patterns, and marks or impressions which represent thelines upon which the material is to be cut and along which the several parts are to be joined by stitches, as set forth.

ln testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing-wit- HBSSGS.

ELVIRE SOPHIE PAILLOT. LUCIE CHARBONNIER. Witnesses:

Roer. M. HooPER, AGH. MARILLiER. 

